摘要
THE climatic deterioration is an important event in the geological history and generally recog-nized by composition of strata and variation in some elements. However, the study on the cli-matic deterioration events in terms of age distribution of animals has been rarely reported.This note reports the study on a climatic deterioration event and its affected area during theMiocene Epoch based on thousands of fossils of Hipparion fauna from Longjiagou in Wudu,